The Armed Forces of Ukraine shot down an Il-76 aircraft over Belgorod.
The IL-76 military aircraft was transporting 65 Ukrainian POW for exchange with Russian POW, along with 6 crew members and 3 escorts.
The captured Ukrainian servicemen were being transported to the Belgorod region for exchange.
Another Il-76 carrying 80 Ukrainian prisoners of war turned back, said the head of the Duma Defense Committee Andrei Kartapolov.
“The Ukrainian leadership was well aware of the impending exchange and was informed of how the prisoners would be delivered,” he said during a speech in the State Duma
After the crash of the IL-76 in the Belgorod region, prisoner exchanges between the Russian Federation and Ukraine will apparently be put on pause.
Of course not unless you’re firmly sitting in the Russia Bad territory. Libs invested 2 years of their intensive online life to root for the team UA and they simply cannot be wrong, no matter what. Zelensky could personally slaughter kids with a knife and baseball bat in the city square of Kiev, loudly screaming “heil hitler”, with thousands of witnesses all making videos of that and they would still spin this to “Russia bad”.
Latest version in this case is apparently: “Russia executed PoW’s for no reason and pulled this as elaborate ruse to cover it up”.
I’ve been waiting for Ukraine to come to the negotiating table and all this madness to stop but that probably won’t ever happen. The “Putler is committing genocide against white people” narrative is just too strong.